PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: The poor got poorer and the well-off didn’t get any better in the Philadelphia region in 2009, according to U.S. census figures released Tuesday.
Philadelphia retained its unwanted position as the poorest among the country’s 10 largest cities, with a poverty rate of 25 percent. Making a bad situation worse, the number of children in poverty under age 18 in the city fell to one in three.
Meanwhile, the median income of residents in Philadelphia’s better-off suburbs either rose slightly or fell in many places, a clear sign of the sour economy’s stranglehold on the region… (more)
